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For the 5th anniversary of Aaron’s Last Wish we visited Sir Pizza in our hometown of Lexington and surprised Elizabeth with a $500 tip! Sir Pizza is a local institution and Elizabeth really deserved this tip.

This one was as big a surprise for us as it was for the waitress! Kevin Tower wanted to do something special for his father Joe, who passed away about a year ago. We were honored to find out that he chose to surprise a lucky waitress named Lauren with a $500 tip for Aaron!

Mom and I fell in love with Sylva, NC a year ago when we visited. Since then we knew we wanted to go back and leave a tip there for Aaron. Finally, last week, we were able to go to Lulu’s on Main and surprise Kira with a $500 tip from Aaron!

While our family plans to continue giving $500 tips at least once a year on our own, this opportunity came as a surprise for and us thanks to the kindness and generosity of a family in Fort Wayne we were able to surprise Kitty at Mad Anthony with the 101st $500 tip for Aaron!

After 3 years, here we are at the 100th tip! This time we visited Cheddar’s in Lexington, which is the last time most of us had dinner with Aaron, and Tyler was the lucky waiter. Stick around till the end for a special message from mom. This episode’s music was provided by Englishman: http://10in20.net/archive/2012/06/19/englishman/ And…

How did this take me so long to post to the page? That, I can’t really answer. Clearly it slipped my mind, but I hope everyone saw it back around the New Year on Facebook or Youtube! Anyway, we hit the road on Christmas Eve and had dinner at Fat Patty’s in Huntington. The food…

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of that first $500 tip, so a few of us went out to The Pub here in Lexington and surprised Kyle with the 98th $500 tip. It’s been a while since we did one and it felt great to make his day!

I’ve been taking a nice vacation from tip giving since returning from my road trip, but that doesn’t mean we are done. As long as we continue to receive donations, we will continue giving $500 tips to unsuspecting waiters and waitresses. You can expect the next one to come in July. Also, I know lots…

I finished up my 7 month long road trip in St. Petersburg, Florida. There I met up with Bill and we walked around until we spotted BellaBrava and decided to have lunch there. Our waitress was Abigayle and after eating some delicious pasta we surprised her with the 97th $500 tip. Check back soon to…